Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Two Round Barrows NE of Harpton Court
Old Radnor, Powys, Wales
A scheduled monument in Old Radnor, Powys, recorded as Round Barrow (Prehistoric).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Round Barrow
- Period
- Prehistoric
- Community
- Old Radnor
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.23307, -3.11335
- SAM number
- RD048
- Cadw record number
- 2586
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the remains of two earthen built round barrows, which probably date to the Bronze Age (c. 2300 - 800 BC). The barrows are circular in shape on plan and have rounded profiles. The western barrow, Barrow A, is also known as the Crossway Barrow. It is c.1.6m high and now measures c.25m north-north-west to south-south-east by c.21m, although it was probably originally round. The eastern barrow, also known as Harpton Court Barrow, is c.25m in diameter and c.1.6m high. Neither barrow has any obvious trace of a ditch.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric burial and ritual practices. The features are an important relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape and retain significant archaeological potential. There is a strong probability of the presence of both intact ritual and burial deposits, together with environmental and structural evidence. Barrows may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Lodge at former North driveway to Harpton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gate Piers,Walls and Railings at former North Driveway to Harpton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Knapp Farm MoundMoundunder 1 mi
- Harpton CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.